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Federal Court rules against Apple, Google in landmark case

A Federal Court judge found the smartphone app stores of Apple and Google engaged in anticompetitive conduct in Australia, in a partial victory for Fortnite game developer Epic Games...

Privacy commissioner hits back at PC’s privacy retreat

Australia’s privacy commissioner says walking back long-overdue privacy reforms and loosening existing laws after a years-long push to strengthen them would be like “throwing out the baby with the...

The quantum leap we can’t afford to miss is sitting in our unis

Quantum technology is a once-in-a-century scientific leap, comparable to the advent of the Internet. Right now, Australia is delivering disproportionate impact: our universities are home to some of the...

Gambling firms lobby for return to R&D tax breaks

The gambling lobby is demanding firms like Sportsbet and bet365 be eligible for Australia’s innovation tax breaks again, six months after the companies were locked out by the Albanese...

Indonesia eyes ‘sovereign AI fund’ to drive development

Authorities overseeing the development of AI in Indonesia have proposed a “sovereign AI fund” to finance the archipelago’s ambitions to become a regional hub for the fast-growing technology, a...

PC push to give teachers ‘equitable access’ to AI, edtech tools

The Productivity Commission is calling for a nationally coordinated rollout of artificial intelligence and other education technologies to school teachers to help ease workloads, personalise learning and improve student...

The role of entrepreneurial urgency in Defence tech

Professor Tanya Monro is six and half years into her role as chief defence scientist and says the growing sense of urgency in the work within the Defence Science...

Defence industry warns Pillar II plan is half-baked

Meagre funding and a lack of clarity over the direction of the advanced technologies component of AUKUS is threatening the success of the all-important ‘Pillar II’ initiative, according to...

Research translation: Turning collaboration into impact

Australia is globally recognised for its world-class research, but when it comes to turning those big ideas into real-world impact, there’s still work to do.  At CSIRO’s ON Program,...

US to take cut of Nvidia, AMD chip sales to China

Nvidia and AMD have agreed to give the US government 15 per cent of revenue from sales to China of advanced computer chips like Nvidia’s H20 that are used...

The tortured path of the STEM Diversity review

Six months after former Industry minister Ed Husic publicly accepted all 11 recommendations of the long-running Pathway to STEM Diversity Review, the federal government has walked back from those...

R&D carved out of ‘five pillars’ productivity inquiries

Productivity Commission chair Danielle Wood has dashed hopes of early reforms to R&D settings through the productivity roundtable process, declaring it a matter for the Strategic Examination of R&D....